Lisa Anderson

In about 10 days, Haji Zahir's war will be over. That is when the heavy winter snows should start falling on the White Mountains, whose frosty 14,000-foot-high peaks sparkle over...

As Pakistan struggled to close its porous, snowcapped border to fleeing Osama bin Laden loyalists, a group of captured Al Qaeda fighters staged a prison bus hijacking Wednesday that ended...

Hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters have escaped into Pakistan despite a gantlet of Pakistani troops guarding the myriad footpaths and passes bridging Osama bin Laden's mountain stronghold with the Pakistani...

Commanders of the Afghan eastern alliance began removing tanks and artillery pieces from what had been forward positions in the White Mountains on Tuesday, an acknowledgment that their combat role...

This was the house of bin Laden. While coalition forces scour caves and mountain passes for the elusive mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the sprawling compound he once called...

With Al Qaeda forces all but defeated and U.S. bombing drastically scaled back, eastern alliance troops and U.S. commandos on Monday began scouring caves in the mountainous Tora Bora region...

Backed by bombing from U.S. warplanes, ground forces of the eastern alliance encircled remaining pro-Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and squeezed them out of their White Mountains redoubt, with commanders...

As he successfully negotiated the terms of surrender for Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, Hamid Karzai demonstrated how he was transforming himself from a scrappy field commander to prime minister-designate...

The besieged Taliban militia agreed Thursday to surrender its last bastion of Kandahar, but the deal was shrouded in uncertainty over the fate and the whereabouts of the regime's spiritual...